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Eric Cantor

"The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all."

Source : "Interview with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 2, 2011.

Eric Cantor

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“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
“Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.”
“And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.”
“Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we donâ€™t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognateâ€”perfectionismâ€”an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as successâ€”an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, â€œThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?”
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”
“On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.”

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